I live in San Antonio, TX and was sitting in my backyard late one night and noticed a stirring in the yard. I had the flashlight, and shined it over there, and it looked like a GIGANTIC RAT!!!! long tail, greyish in color, long nose, CREEPY!!!
It was over a foot and a half long and chubby, with about a 12 inch tail... (get your mind out of the gutter!) lol
I walked swiftly in the house and checked the door behind me and told myself it was NOT A GIGANTIC SCARY NEW YORK SEWER RAT!!!
I know the cockroaches "water bugs" (I guess naming them that makes it more tolerable) are supposed to be big in TX but had no idea that there were rats this big.
Someone please help! someone tell me honestly it was something else that is popular and running around in the backyards of northeast San Antonio! and what is his/her identification/species/name?????
2006-06-17 03:19:46 · 9 answers · asked by xxxcariooo 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I checked out the back to see if it had a hard "suit of armour" like that armadilla' thing ya all are talking about... it wasn't there... it was short scarry fur... ;)
2006-06-17 05:12:26 · update #1
thanks for the link for the "The coypu or nutria" but those little things are toooo cute! I would have encouraged that little critter by getting it a treat!
Nothing as ugly as this other thang...
2006-06-17 05:15:23 · update #2
yup! definetly an opposum!! I came from AZ... the creepiest thing I ever saw were rattlesnakes! That s***t freaked ME OUT! I always thought opposums were supposed to be cute and cuddly! Maybe it would have been cuter with a bunch of babies attached to it's back...
Already have the best answer person firgured out but have to wait the 24 hours! thanks so much!!!!
I am "somewhat less freaked out" now... and no it didn't hiss at me.. lol ... I passed that little bas***d waaaay to fast on my way back into the house...!!!!!! lmao
2006-06-17 05:20:56 · update #3
LOL....possum baby...did it hiss at ya...hehehe
2006-06-17 03:26:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
It definately sounds like a nutria; they are more related to beavers. In some places they are called coypu, just not here in Texas.
2006-06-17 03:26:35 · answer #2 · answered by O Caçador 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like an armadillo or an opposum.
2006-06-17 03:23:55 · answer #3 · answered by Diana C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possum
2006-06-17 03:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like an armadillo. they're like those bugs that when u touch them they roll up like a ball
2006-06-17 03:25:06 · answer #5 · answered by RIKNAMB4EVR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nutrea.
It is of the rat family.
Possums are more common
Armadillos are even more common.
2006-06-17 03:23:42 · answer #6 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it may be the feared el chupacabra. keep all goats and chickens inside or risk getting their blood sucked out.
2006-06-17 03:31:18 · answer #7 · answered by someone s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://kaweahoaks.com/html/opossum.htm
2006-06-17 03:26:00 · answer #8 · answered by milldoc 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an armadillo or a racoon?
2006-06-17 03:22:50 · answer #9 · answered by kev 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋